Plans to bring the Central School of Ballet and a residence for 250 students to a derelict site between Hatfields and Paris Garden were given the green light by councillors on Tuesday night.
Around 80 people deposited fake excrement on the South Bank on Wednesday morning at a flashmob to mark the end of the International Year of Sanitation.
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